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Insights and Research
Quick Poll: The Anticipated Impact of Tariffs on Incentive Plans
Research Report | May 2025 | Jannice Koors
Insights and Research
The Pearl Meyer team includes industry experts with deep knowledge and experience in all aspects of compensation and leadership. Here they provide valuable insight on emerging issues and developing trends. They offer compelling solutions for challenging situations and advice on maximizing opportunities. Read on and learn more about how Pearl Meyer’s team can help you connect pay, people, and performance.
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A Comprehensive Look at Executive Incentive Plan Design
A well-structured total compensation framework balances performance motivation, market relevance, and retention considerations.

Testing Assumptions: Do We Have the Right Metrics?
S1 Ep4: A conversation on relative metrics, and the merits of correlation analysis to understand if your pay program is aligned to long-term value creation.

The Near-Term Problem with Long-Term Forecasting
S1 Ep3: The pros and cons of several creative ideas that can take the sting out of current long-term incentive plan design challenges.

Boards Championing Innovation: Shepherding Growth in an Uncertain World
When governed with the same rigor as financial oversight or risk management, innovation can be a core lever of long-term value creation.

Management's Annual Incentive Plans: Stretch Goals or Layups
S1 Ep 2: How to smooth out potential tension between the board and management around rigor of the annual incentive plan targets.

Constructing a Compensation Peer Group
Before any market analysis takes place, the approach to developing a peer group should be rooted in a deliberate and philosophy-based manner.

Is it Feeling Like Spring 2020?
S1 Ep 1: Compensation committees and consultants are dealing with a wide variety of unknowns.

Ensuring a Strategic Partnership with Your Advisor
It’s a good exercise for boards to periodically think about the core traits required for a strategic consulting partner.

Falling Oil Prices and Tariffs Are Undermining Short-Term Incentive Plans
How compensation committees are thinking about mitigating the STI impact of missed market estimates and global market disruption
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We offer experience and guidance that helps private organizations attract, motivate, and develop the talent that will move your strategy forward.

New Directions for Director Pay
Boards, primarily focused on their fiduciary responsibilities, often overlook their compensation. Yet, like executive pay, board compensation can drive value. Strategic pay structures are crucial for attracting and retaining directors who enhance a visionary board sensitive to risks and opportunities, thus boosting organization's success.

Work Has Changed
How boards and management teams can navigate disruption and drive human capital transformation.

Private Companies
We offer experience and guidance that helps private organizations attract, motivate, and develop the talent that will move your strategy forward.

New Directions for Director Pay
Boards, primarily focused on their fiduciary responsibilities, often overlook their compensation. Yet, like executive pay, board compensation can drive value. Strategic pay structures are crucial for attracting and retaining directors who enhance a visionary board sensitive to risks and opportunities, thus boosting organization's success.

Work Has Changed
How boards and management teams can navigate disruption and drive human capital transformation.

Private Companies
We offer experience and guidance that helps private organizations attract, motivate, and develop the talent that will move your strategy forward.
